macroinvertebrate
noun
macroinvertebrate is a noun meaning “An invertebrate that is large enough to be seen without the use of a microscope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-C-R-O-I-N-V-E-R-T-E-B-R-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of macroinvertebrate is macroinvertebrates.
What does macroinvertebrate mean?
noun
- 1
An invertebrate that is large enough to be seen without the use of a microscope.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce macroinvertebrate?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-macroinvertebrate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of macroinvertebrate
- macroinvertebrates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is macroinvertebrate?
Macroinvertebrate appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does macroinvertebrate come from?
From macro- + invertebrate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).